A few days later, Zhang Boqian returned seriously injured, and all the troops he brought were wiped out. Zhang Boqian didn't say a word about the specific results of the battle, but when he came back he was full of vigor and showed no signs of being in a bad mood.
Zhang Boqian never bothered to cover up the pretense, since he was in a good mood, he had gained a lot. But there was no news about the results of the battle, and everyone could only speculate based on clues. Soon there was news from the dark camp, those small clans didn't talk about it, claiming that two of the original thirteen blood clans urgently recalled all the high-ranking nobles who participated in the war in the Eternal Night Continent to the Twilight Continent.
Taking Zhang Boqian's battle as the starting point, the empire's huge war machine finally started rumbling. The major legions mobilized in turn. Some increased their troops to Yongye, and some legions attacked the territory of the dark race from other aspects, hoping to alleviate the tension on the Eternal Night Continent from the side. pressure.
In this magnificent war, there is an unusually quiet corner, Heiliu City.
Ever since the army of darkness left, Heiliu City has been confronting that small surveillance force. People outside the city did not attack, and people inside the city did not want to go out, so the situation became stalemate. As the flames of war burned throughout the Eternal Night Continent, the war gradually became more intense, and this place seemed to have become a forgotten corner.
During the quiet days, Wei Bainian was not idle at all, strengthening the defense of Heiliu City every moment. With each passing day, Black Stream City moves one step closer to being a complete war fortress.
Qianye was not completely idle. After confirming that the dark army had left the war zone, he led the mercenary group out of Heiliu City and headed for the mine occupied by the deserters of the Seventh Division.
When the dark army crossed the border, the Fifteenth Division was completely defeated, and even the remnants of the Seventh Division in the mine were greatly reduced. The ensuing offensive and defensive battle was not too intense. Just after the battle started, Qianye killed two of the three leaders of the remnant soldiers with an eagle strike. The morale of the remnant soldiers dropped sharply, and many even started to run away.
According to the previous discussion with Wei Bainian, Qianye stationed the dark fire mercenary group in this mine until the end of the war.
The location of this mine is remote, not on the usual marching route, and the attached town only has a population of a few hundred, and it has no value other than the unrich mine veins. The terrain around the mine is complex, backed by a branch of the mountain, and just within the flight distance of the small airship. Guarding the mine would guarantee an escape route for Heiliu City. Although this channel can only be used by a few people, the big shots in Heiliu City who have to stay will feel more at ease, and they will be able to play less tricks behind their backs.
After occupying the mine, Qianye inspected the surrounding area alone, and all signs showed that the dark army that had passed through the border indeed marched into the depths of the human territory without stopping, which verified their previous judgment.
After Qianye returned to the black process, he continued to practice behind closed doors, and continued to carry out high-intensity physical training to adapt to the sudden increase in strength.
Compared with the original golden blood energy, the new dark gold blood energy is very quiet, most of the time it is entrenched in the pupil spell rune, motionless, only occasionally jumping out to devour a normal blood energy. It was too quiet, that kind of quietness did not make people ignore its existence, but made Qianye inexplicably chill, as if being swept by an indescribably vast and ancient atmosphere.
Occasionally, the Pupil Rune will flash a burst of light patterns, and the changes that emerge are becoming more and more complex, with signs of advancement or even new runes.
Qianye is still majoring in Bingjue Jue. This time, the transformation and strengthening of the dark gold blood energy to the body has taken an unprecedented long time, and the benefits are naturally huge. He has been able to easily push the tide of the dawn force through forty rounds. However, after being condensed by Song's ancient scrolls, the total amount of original force is not so amazing, it is only equivalent to twice that of the same level.
As for the dark force, Qianye does not have to worry about conflicting with the dawn force for the time being. After the blood qi absorbed in the second battle of Hei Ni Town was completely transformed, it turned into food for the three kinds of blood qi in the body, most of which were swallowed by the dark gold blood qi, and a small amount was absorbed by the purple and ordinary blood qi.
In the raging war, the transmission speed of various intelligence and news has also been affected. There was finally a new movement at the headquarters of the expeditionary army. After crossing many lines of fire, two official documents were sent to Heiliu City.
One is the reward order. The amount of battle rewards listed in the attachment is quite unexpected. According to Qianye's record, he alone can get as much as 3,000 gold coins. This amount is not lower than the unit price bounty received by the freedom fighters. Calculated, the expeditionary army headquarters only took less than 20% of the military expenditure.
But now is wartime, and all rewards will not be distributed until after the war, and the only remaining reliable transportation channels will obviously give way to emergency military supplies.
The other is a combat order. The article sternly reprimanded Wei Bainian for his unrestrained behavior, and ordered him to immediately lead the Seventh Division to attack the dark race army that is now rampantly operating in Sanhe County from the rear, so as to reduce the pressure on the overall battle situation.
After reading this order, Wei Bainian immediately sneered, and directly tore the official document to pieces in front of Qianye and the other officers. Then Wei Bainian took the turret tactics to the extreme. Every wide road in the city has three steps with one barrier, five steps with one base, and secret sentries and sniper bunkers are erected everywhere.
When the dark army outside the city showed with practical actions that no matter how many people or soldiers left Heiliu City, they were not prepared to move at all, Wei Bainian released the city ban. He also did not require the defenders to set up special checks on the flow of people entering and leaving, but only limited the strict opening and closing times of the city gates.
When people flow in and out, news will naturally spread. There are many agents and spies of the dark race in ordinary human cities, and Heiliu City is no exception. The defense situation in the city was quickly leaked, which also achieved Wei Bainian's goal. He just wanted to let the dark races know how difficult it is to take down Heiliu City and how much it will cost.
Qianye's life is not boring, at most it is a bit boring. After he settled down the mercenary group and returned to Heiliu City, he practiced almost all the time. Although Heiliu City is very peaceful now, the entire Sanhe County and even the entire Eternal Night are in danger. If human beings are completely cleared from this continent, the small Heiliu City is of course impossible to survive alone. When the army of the dark race reappeared under the city, it should be the time when the city was broken.
That night, Qianye, who had trained strength for an entire hour, just walked out of the training room, and then went into the bathroom. When the scalding hot water is sprayed on the skin, the comfortable feeling seems to emanate from every pore. At this moment, Qianye suddenly heard a voice: "Close to me..."
Qianye was taken aback, and instantly entered a fighting state. The crimson origin force radiated through his body, intertwined with the water vapor filling the room, like the clouds at sunrise on a mountain peak.
The bathroom is not big, and you can see everything without turning your head too far. Apart from Qianye, there is no one, not even a bug.
Qianye reached out and turned off the shower, and listened attentively, the outer room was also quiet. However, he can be sure that he did hear the voice just now. With Qianye's keen perception and determination, how could there be auditory hallucinations or mishearing.
Qianye let go of his senses and scanned the bathroom and the outer room again, making sure he couldn't find anything unusual, then calmly walked out of the bathroom and began to change his clothes. The shining teeth were placed beside him as usual, within reach.
Then there is no abnormality.
Qianye picked up a stack of documents and letters on the table and started to deal with general affairs. He approved the two reports submitted by Song Hu, and wrote another letter to Song Zining.
After everything was dealt with, Qianye hesitated for a moment. During this period of time, he had been using cultivation instead of sleep, but he felt a little restless at this time. Maybe the recent wars and cultivation were too frequent, and there was no physical problem in the end. A little overtired.
When he first lay down on the bed, Qianye even felt a kind of happiness that he had not seen for a long time, and then he felt drowsy, and soon fell asleep.
Qianye's consciousness suddenly trembled. It felt as if the whole world was shaking. He opened his eyes and found that the surroundings were gray. Not to mention that he couldn't see the furniture that was close at hand, even the bed under him was gone. The fog was as thick as a substance, slowly rolling around the body, as if it had an independent consciousness.
Qianye stretched out his hand to grab it, and actually "teared" off a large piece of mist, and felt a feeling of catching wet cotton in his hand.
How is this going? Qianye was extremely surprised.
He looked down again, and suddenly realized that he should not be in the room anymore. He was standing, and the ground under his feet was ordinary land. The black oily soil seemed very fertile, but there was no life, no grass, no bugs, no life, nothing.
He raised his head, and the sky was also gray, as if it was boundless and high, but there was nothing there either.
In this strange world, it seems that there is nothing but fog and gray.
Qianye looked at himself, he was wearing a simple linen robe, but he never remembered that he had such a dress, the style was very similar to the common clothes of low-level vampires.
Qianye stretched out his hand, it was colored, and the body parts exposed outside the clothes were also colored, as usual. But in this gray world, it seems extremely abnormal, because he is the only existence with color.
Qianye suddenly understood that this was a dream, but it felt too real.
At this moment, the voice sounded again: "Come closer to me..."
This time Qianye heard it very clearly, the voice was a bit ethereal, it was difficult to tell whether it was a man or a woman from the line of the voice, but the general direction could still be discerned.
He tried to walk in the direction where the sound came from. It was a long journey. In Qianye's consciousness, at least half an hour later, the surrounding environment was still the same without any change. Qianye looked suspiciously at the gray fog next to him. How could he feel that even the tumbling lines of the clouds were exactly the same as the beginning. Is the world in this dream moving forward
When Qianye couldn't help but stop, the voice sounded again, this time it seemed to be a little clearer, and there seemed to be something after those three words, but it was not clear.
Qianye thought for a while, and continued to move forward. This time, he walked continuously for an entire hour before he heard the voice again.
"Come near me...bring my head...give me eternal rest..."